Alastair Cook and MS Dhoni with the series trophy on the eve of the Trent Bridge Test
Old Trafford Stats and trivia
- India last played a Test at Old Trafford in 1990,
when Sachin Tendulkar made a match-saving maiden century; they have
drawn five and lost three matches at the venue. England have won six and
drawn two of their last eight Tests in Manchester; their last defeat
there was against Pakistan in May 2001.
- Anderson had taken 12 wickets at 35.33 apiece in four
Tests at Old Trafford, his home ground. His new-ball partner Stuart
Broad has only two wickets in two Tests at the venue, at an average of
108.50.
- Ian Bell averages 78.57 in six Tests in Manchester. He has 550 runs in ten innings there, with two hundreds. Cook has scored 431 runs at an average of 53.87 at the venue.
Play began half an hour late with the outfield under covers due to a drizzle
India won the toss and chose to bat
Squads
England
Alastair Cook (c), SD Robson, GS Ballance, IR Bell, JE Root, MM Ali, JC Buttler (wk), CR Woakes, SCJ Broad, JM Anderson, CJ Jordan
Most consecutive Test matches played |
|---|
| 153 - Allan Border (Australia, 1979-1994) |
| 107 - Mark Waugh (Australia, 1993-2002) |
| 106 - Sunil Gavaskar (India, 1975-1987) |
| 105* - Alastair Cook (England, 2006-date) |
After winning the toss and choosing to bat, India collapsed to 8-4 as Stuart Broad took 6/25 and James Anderson 3/46 as England assumed control of the fourth Test against India on the opening day at Old Trafford.
Six Indian batsmen fail to score, equaling the record
The Old Trafford scorebord shone brightly in the early morning gloom as England reduced India to 8-4
Six ducks in a Test innings |
| The six ducks in India's innings equalled the world record |
| Team | Score | Ducks | Inns | Result | Opposition | Ground | Match Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 128 | 6 | 1 | drawn | v West Indies | Karachi | 22 Dec 1980 | ||
| South Africa | 105 | 6 | 4 | lost | v India | Ahmedabad | 20 Nov 1996 | ||
| Bangladesh | 87 | 6 | 3 | lost | v West Indies | Dhaka | 8 Dec 2002 | ||
| India | 152 | 6 | 1 | - | v England | Manchester | 7 Aug 2014 |
Within six overs India were in tatters at 8 for 4; three of the top four having collected ducks, including the struggling Virat Kohli who fell second ball to James Anderson.
Murali Vijay and Virat Kohli both nicked James Anderson to Alastair Cook at first slip, and Cheteshwar Pujara poked at Stuart Broad and was well taken by Chris Jordan at fourth slip
Playing in his 39th Test innings, Cheteshwar Pujara has registered his first duck
Gautam Gambhir, recalled for his first Test since England toured India in late 2012, got a leading edge to gully asStuart Broad passed Graeme Swann’s tally of 256 Test wickets.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Pankaj Singh were clean bowled to take the tally of ducks to six.
Only Dhoni (71) and Ashwin (40) offer any resistance
MS Dhoni and R Ashwin scored 66 runs for the 7th wicket after India were 63 for 6
Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the 11th batsman and eighth wicketkeeper to score 1000 Test runs against England. Dhoni achieved this feat in the course of his brave knock of 71 against Alastair Cook's men on the first day of the Old Trafford match on Thursday
The Indian captain needed 23 to get to the landmark and M S Dhoni was in the middle inside the first ten overs, only for the first time in his 87-Test career. The last time he had come out to bat that early was against South Africa at Motera back in April, 2008, when India were reduced to 30/4 off 7.3 overs
M S Dhoni's knock helped him join the likes of Sachin Tendulkar (2535), Sunil Gavaskar (2483), Rahul Dravid (1950), Gundappa Viswanath (1880), Dilip Vengsarkar (1589) and Ravi Shastri (1026) as only the seventh Indian to break into the 1000-run barrier against England in Tests
M S Dhoni's 32nd fifty today helped Dhoni become the ninth batsman to get past 600 runs against England in England as he forced his way into an illustrious club, already occupied by Tendulkar (1575), Dravid (1376), Gavaskar (1152), Vengsarkar (960), Sourav Ganguly (915), Viswanath (858), Kapil Dev (638) and Mohammed Azharuddin (625).
M S Dhoni’s 71 off 133 balls is his 32nd half century in Tests. He has become the first Indian captain to record five fifties in Tests in England, bettering Sourav Ganguly’s four.
India bowled out for 152/10 in 46.4 Overs
India (152) have recorded their third-lowest completed innings total against England at Old Trafford — the lowest is 58 and 82 in 1952.
Stuart Broad walks off with the match ball after taking 6/25.Stuart Broad (6/25) has produced his best bowling performance in a Test innings vs India, bettering the six for 46 at Nottingham in 2011.His figures are his third best in Tests, next only to 7 for 44 against New Zealand at Lord’s (2013) and 7 for 72 against West Indies at Lord’s (2012)
England lost both openers cheaply, but rallied to reach 113-3 by the close, with Ian Bell unbeaten on 45.
Ian Bell added 77 with Gary Ballance, whose dismissal for 37 in the final over of the day gave a second wicket to fast bowler Varun Aaron,who makes his Test Match Debut
At Close of Play,England were 113/3 with Ian Bell 45* and Chris Jordan 0* at the crease
Day Two Friday Aug 08,2014
England, resuming on 113-3, lost nightwatchman Chris Jordan after half an hour when he swatted Bhuvneshwar Kumar bouncer to mid-wicket for 13.
And when Ian Bell(scored his 42nd Test Match Fifty) nicked an away-swinger from the same bowler to M S Dhoni, England were five wickets down and still 12 runs short of India's 1st Innings score of 152 Runs
Ian Bell's Test record at Old Trafford |
|
|---|---|
| 59 & 65 v Australia (2005) | Matches: 7 |
| 106* v Pakistan (2006) | Innings: 11 |
| 97 & 2 v West Indies (2007) | Runs: 608 |
| 8 & 21* v New Zealand (2008) | Highest score: 128 |
| 128 v Bangladesh (2010) | Average: 76.00 |
| 60 & 4* v Australia (2013) | Hundreds: 2 |
| 58 v India (2014) | Fifties: 7 |
India then set about probing Moeen Ali's weakness against the short ball to the batsman's obvious discomfort.
One ball after being hit on the gloves by a Varun Aaron bumper, Moeen was caught out by a fast, full ball and bowled for 13.
Joe Root's unbeaten 48 and Jos Buttler's 22 not out helped England to 237-6, an 85-run lead, before heavy rain stopped play at 14:15 BST
After a torrential downpour, the weather improved and most of the surface water was cleared, but the umpires ruled that a particularly damp corner of the oufield remained unsafe for play, prompting an official abandonment at 17:39 BST.
The downpour in Manchester left the Old Trafford outfield looking like a reservoir
The luckless Pankaj Singh who has conceded 258 runs in the series toiled again and still looking for his first Test wicket
Scorecard
England 1st Innings -237/6 in 71Overs
| Runs | Minutes | Balls | 4s | 6s | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cook | c Singh | b Aaron | 17 | 58 | 42 | 2 | 0 |
| Robson | b B Kumar | 6 | 37 | 24 | 1 | 0 | |
| Ballance | lbw | b Aaron | 37 | 116 | 87 | 6 | 0 |
| Bell | c Dhoni | b B Kumar | 58 | 142 | 82 | 8 | 1 |
| Jordan | c Aaron | b B Kumar | 13 | 33 | 22 | 3 | 0 |
| Root | not out | 48 | 120 | 94 | 6 | 0 | |
| Moeen | b Aaron | 13 | 41 | 27 | 2 | 0 | |
| Buttler | not out | 22 | 65 | 53 | 2 | 0 | |
| Extras | 5nb 4w 5b 9lb | 23 | |||||
| Total | for 6 (71.0 ovs) | 237 | |||||
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B Kumar | 18.0 | 6 | 47 | 3 |
| Singh | 17.0 | 2 | 79 | 0 |
| Aaron | 16.0 | 2 | 48 | 3 |
| Ashwin | 13.0 | 1 | 28 | 0 |
| Jadeja | 7.0 | 0 | 21 | 0 |
| Fall of Wicket | |
|---|---|
| 21 | Robson |
| 36 | Cook |
| 113 | Ballance |
| 136 | Jordan |
| 140 | Bell |
| 170 | Moeen |
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